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Postcard from Heaven

Susan Allen, solo harp; with Ellie Choate, Marilu Donovan, Jillian Risigari-Gai, Jaclyn Urlik, harps; & Colton Lytle, bowed vibraphone The harp is a strange and compelling instrument that in its technological ancientness beckons composers and listeners alike to bask in its heavenly aura. Like hand drums and acoustic guitars, the...


Parkins, Rzewski & Tenney: Music for String Quartet & Percussion

Eclipse Quartet: Sara Parkins, violin; Sarah Thornblade, violin; Alma Lisa Fernandez, viola; Maggie Parkins, cello; with William Winant, percussion The evolution of the string quartet repertory has accelerated during the last half of the twentieth-century and beyond as composers from both the mainstream and the avant-garde have mined its seemingly...


Philip Corner: Extreme Positions

The Barton Workshop: Jos Zwaanenburg, flute; John Anderson, clarinets; James Fulkerson, Hilary Jeffery, trombones; Nina Hitz, cello; Boris M. Visser, violin; Manuel Visser, viola; Rozemarie Heggen, contrabass; Krijn van Arnhem, bassoon/contrabassoon; Dante Oei, piano (Chopin Prelude); Tobias Liebezeit, percussion; Taylan Susam, conductor (Passionate Expanse of the Law) Philip Corner (b...


Clusters: American Piano Explorations

Rory Cowal, piano Rory Cowal is a distinctive pianist, one who draws liberally on classical chops, ample experience with improvisation, and a predilection for the new and uncharted. This makes him especially attractive to composers who wish to blur the boundaries between traditional styles and genres. A musical adventurer at...


Malcolm Goldstein: a sounding of sources

Malcolm Goldstein, solo violin; Radu Malfatti, trombone; Philippe Micol, bass clarinet; Philippe Racine, flute; Beat Schneider, violoncello As a composer/violinist/improviser Malcolm Goldstein has been active in the presentation of new music and dance since the early 1960s in New York City as a co-founder with James Tenney and Philip Corner...


Catherine Lamb: Atmospheres Transparent/Opaque

Ensemble Dedalus: Didier Aschour, electric guitar, music director; Amélie Berson, wood and metal flutes; Cyprien Busolini, viola; Yannick Guédon, voice, treble viola da gamba; Thierry Madiot, trombone; Pierre-Stéphane Meugé, saxophone, synthesizer; Christian Pruvost, trumpet; Silvia Tarozzi, violin; Deborah Walker, cello, voice This recording is an excellent introduction to the distinctive...


Chris Brown: Six Primes

Chris Brown, piano Chris Brown (b 1953) composes music for traditional instruments, acoustic instruments with interactive electronics, improvisers, and computer networks. With Six Primes (2014), for retuned piano in 13-limit just intonation—drawing on the Rhythmicana ideas of Henry Cowell, the pure keyboard focus of Conlon Nancarrow, the affection for just...


Larry Polansky: The Theory Of Impossible Melody

Jody Diamond, Chris Mann, voice; Phil Burk and Larry Polansky, live computers; Larry Polansky, fretless electric guitars; Robin Hayward, tubas Among the lineages of knowledge that Larry Polansky (b 1954) has woven together in his creative work, as both a composer and theorist, have been mathematics, intonation theory, cybernetics, systems...


James Mulcro Drew: Animating Degree Zero

The Barton Workshop: Charles van Tassel, baritone; Eleonore Pameijer, flute, alto flute; John Anderson, clarinet, bass clarinet; Marieke Keser, violin; Manuel Visser, viola; Nina Hitz, cello; Anne Magda de Geus, cello; Jos Tieman, contrabass; Frank Denyer, piano, celesta; James Fulkerson, Hilary Jeffery, trombones; Enric Monfort Barbera, glockenspiel, vibraphone, chimes, gongs,...


Alvin Lucier: Wind Shadows

The Barton Workshop: John Anderson, clarinet; Frank Denyer, piano; James Fulkerson, trombone; Marieke Keser, violin; Judith van Swaay, cello; Jos Tieman, double bass The music on these CDs takes us into a new realm of music making, one that Alvin Lucier has defined for us and one that demands that...